DAILY NO. 25 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
Today's five technology Size It Up comparisons with the measured size of each object, its reference and a source you can check. The puzzle is still live, so every answer stays hidden until you tap it. Haven't played yet? Play today's puzzle first.
The October 16, 2026 puzzle ran from a smartwatch at 4.5 cm to a PlayStation 5 at 39 cm — about 9× apart, drawing on technology. The pair furthest apart was round 4: a smartwatch is about 2.1× smaller than a coffee mug.
Answer: Camera Drone — 35 cm. A camera drone measures 35 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a large pizza at 35.6 cm.
Measured diagonally between motors, the dimension most drone regulations use.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a camera drone when it sits beside a large pizza — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Smartphone — 14.7 cm. A smartphone measures 14.7 cm (height), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, an ice cream cone at 17 cm.
Phones stopped growing at roughly the limit of what a thumb can reach one-handed.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a smartphone when it sits beside an ice cream cone — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: PlayStation 5 — 39 cm. A PlayStation 5 measures 39 cm (height), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, a desktop computer tower at 45 cm.
The largest home console ever sold, almost entirely because of its cooling.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a PlayStation 5 when it sits beside a desktop computer tower — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Smartwatch — 4.5 cm. A smartwatch measures 4.5 cm (height), which is about 2.1× smaller than the reference, a coffee mug at 9.5 cm.
Watch cases are sold by case diameter in millimetres, and 45 mm is a large one.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a smartwatch when it sits beside a coffee mug — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Game Controller — 16 cm. A game controller measures 16 cm (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a hard-shell taco at 15 cm.
Controller width has hardly moved since the 1990s — hands did not get bigger.
Common miss: players tend to compress a game controller when it sits beside a hard-shell taco — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Sizes are measured along the axis named in each round and link to their published source. Explore the full library by category, or read how scoring works.